{"id":6518,"date":"2019-12-11T14:42:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T20:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/netasite.org\/?p=6518"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:42:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T20:42:48","slug":"lessons-from-googleei-swe19-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netasite.org\/?p=6518","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from #GoogleEI #SWE19: Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By Lynne Herr<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn Google\u2019s experience, innovation happens when you create the right environment, hire the right people, and get out of their way.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6519 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/netasite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Designers-280x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/netasite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Designers-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/netasite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Designers-768x821.jpg 768w, https:\/\/netasite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Designers-957x1024.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/>Simply put, \u201cagency\u201d gives employees control over their own work. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In its guide, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rework.withgoogle.com\/guides\/foster-an-innovative-workplace\/steps\/introduction\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foster an Innovative Workplace<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Google advises to \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">allow employees to define their own work as much as possible\u201d to nurture a culture of innovation. In a practical sense, that means no one tells you what to do or when to do it.\u00a0 You can work from multiple locations and spaces. Workspace is designed to be flexible and is in high demand. Each employee schedules space to meet their own needs \u2013 if you schedule a room for an hour, you\u2019re trusted to need the room for an hour and be out of it on time so the next scheduled group has access to needed space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tied to agency, employee performance is not measured by the amount of time someone shows up at the office, but by reaching objectives and key results (OKRs). At Google, OKRs are set at company, team, and individual levels each quarter. OKRs communicate where you\u2019re headed and how progress will be measured. Do individuals and teams always meet their goals?\u00a0 No. But if they don\u2019t, \u201cleaders regularly explain why they didn\u2019t fully achieve their stated goals, what they\u2019ve learned, and what they plan to do next to move forward. Modeling failure in this way sends a powerful message to everyone in the company that it is OK to fail so long as you learn from it, share what you\u2019ve learned, and make plans to do better.\u201d<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6520 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/netasite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_8479-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/netasite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_8479-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/netasite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_8479-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/netasite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_8479-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/netasite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_8479-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does agency look like in education?\u00a0 How might we allow teachers and students agen<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cy toward\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reaching learning goals (our version of Google\u2019s OKRs) set by state and national forces outside the school or individual classroom?\u00a0 What would teacher agency look like for professional learning goals?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lynne Herr \u201cIn Google\u2019s experience, innovation happens when you create the right environment, hire the right people, and get out of their way.\u201d Simply put, \u201cagency\u201d gives employees control&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/netasite.org\/?p=6518\" class=\"gdlr-info-font excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/netasite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/netasite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/netasite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netasite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netasite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6518"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/netasite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6526,"href":"https:\/\/netasite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518\/revisions\/6526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netasite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/netasite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netasite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netasite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}